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Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report

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Washington Post reports Elon Musk briefly worked illegally in the US after abandoning a graduate studies program in California in 1995 .

South African multibillionaire dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2 , which sold for about $300m four years later .

Legal experts said foreign students cannot drop out of school to build a company even if they are not getting paid.

Musk has previously maintained that his transition from student to entrepreneur was a "legal grey area".